Canadian conglomerate Bombardier, Inc. reported significantly higher net income for the year ended Jan. 31, 1997, as revenues hit the $8 billion (Canadian) mark for the first time.
JEFFREY HABIB was promoted to director of sales for North Asia for Dassault Falcon Jet. Habib, previously district sales manager for the Far East, will be responsible for sales of Falcon business jets in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan.
The U.S. Navy plans to issue a final request for proposals (RFP) at the end of April for three C-9B replacement aircraft it plans to buy for its Navy Unique Fleet Essential Airlift (NUFEA) mission, an aircraft the service said must have a range of at least 3,400 nautical miles with 5,000 pounds of cargo.
DUNCAN AVIATION recently completed a number of modifications and equipment installations to a Gulfstream IV managed by Jet Aviation. The installations included the provisions for a Honeywell HUD-2020 heads-up display system, a triple-wide pedestal, BFGoodrich standby horizon, Smiths altimeter airspeed indicator, Securaplane 500 security system, Honeywell lightning sensor system, Magnastar telephone and Grimes gooseneck lights.
JETFLEET MANAGEMENT CORP. negotiated the lease extension of three de Havilland DHC-7 aircraft for 24 additional months to Raytheon Range Systems Engineering. The aircraft are operated for the U.S. Army in the Marshall Islands. JMC is an aircraft management, marketing and finance company located in Burlingame, Calif.
DEFENSE FUEL SUPPLY CENTER, which recently awarded a contract to AVCARD to provide credit card services for pilots of U.S. military and federal agency aircraft buying fuel and related goods and services (BA, March 17/121), will hold a briefing on the new program at this week's National Air Transportation Association convention in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The DFSC session is scheduled for March 26 at 3:15 p.m. When fully implemented the new AIR (Aviation Into-Plane Reimbursement) card program being administered by AVCARD will include some 23,000 aircraft.
DAC INTERNATIONAL signed an agreement to market and distribute Heads Up Technologies' general aviation, corporate, airline and military products. Under the agreement, DAC will provide worldwide marketing and distribution services for Heads Up Technologies' passenger briefing system, pilot's checklist and annunciator panels. Certain domestic original equipment manufacturer accounts are excluded from this agreement. DAC formerly represented Heads Up Technologies only in international markets.
GA Team 2000, the industry-wide effort to dramatically improve the number of new student pilots, has moved into the operational phase with "kick off" meetings at last week's General Aviation Forecast Conference in Wichita, Kan. and at this week's National Air Transportation Association annual convention in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The campaign, which aims to boost the number of student starts to 100,000 annually by 2000, now comprises more than 100 companies, organizations and individuals from all corners of the general aviation industry.
Summary: Pursuant to FAA's rulemaking provisions governing the application, processing, and disposition of petitions for exemption (14 CFR Part 11), this notice contains a summary of certain petitions seeking relief from specified requirements of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR Chapter I), dispositions of certain petitions previously received, and corrections. The purpose of this notice is to improve the public's awareness of, and participation in, this aspect of FAA's regulatory activities.
PRESIDENT CLINTON last week announced his intention to nominate Kenneth Mead as inspector general for the Department of Transportation. Mead has served as deputy assistant comptroller general for the General Accounting Office since 1996, and, before that, was GAO's director of transportation issues and policy from 1987 to 1995. As director of transportation issues, Mead oversaw a staff of 125 and was responsible for the development of many recommendations to Congress and DOT on aviation, rail, transit and other transportation sectors.
ALLIEDSIGNAL TFE731 series turbofans (Docket No. 96-ANE-08; Amdt. 39- 9926; AD 97-04-03) - requires removal from service of certain first stage low-pressure turbine seal plates before accumulating the new, reduced cyclic life limit, and replacement with serviceable LPT seal plates. This amendment is prompted by a report that the machined LPT seal plate geometry did not meet the design intent due to drawing ambiguity. The actions specified by this AD are intended to prevent fatigue cracking and subsequent uncontained failure of an LPT seal plate.
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF TRAVEL AGENTS, which represents more than 28,000 travel agents worldwide, has gone on record against new flight restrictions on air tour operators at the Grand Canyon. ASTA's board of directors voted unanimously "to endorse a policy supporting continued reasonable air access to U.S.
Stating that he thinks he "underrated the problems" posed by the prospective Boeing-McDonnell Douglas merger, European Union Transport Commissioner Karel Van Miert said Monday the European Commission was launching a "full-fledged investigation" into the deal.
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION issued an advisory circular on amateur- built aircraft. The advisory circular, AC 20-139, Commercial Assistance During Construction of Amateur-Built Aircraft, provides guidance on acceptable means to comply with the requirements of Part 21 of the Federal Aviation Regulations. FAA directed the AC toward manufacturers of aircraft kits and the people who build them. To obtain a copy of AC 20-139, write the U.S.
DIAGNOSTIC/RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS partnership company DRS Laurel Technologies received International Organization for Standards' ISO-9002 quality system standard certification. DRS Laurel Technologies, Johnstown, Pa., manufactures and integrates electronic systems, cable and wire harness interconnect products and electromechanical assemblies for commercial and military aerospace markets.
DASSAULT scheduled a series of one-day, regional conferences to update Falcon operators on maintenance and support issues. The conferences are intended to supplement Dassault Falcon Jet's worldwide maintenance and operations seminars held every two years. The one-day regional conferences will cover several of Dassault's customer service programs as well as a status report on meeting new Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum standards. They also will provide information on Halon fire extinguishers and review recent service bulletins.
RAYTHEON Beech 90, 99, 100, 200 and 1900 series airplanes (Docket No. 96-CE-11-AD; Amdt. 39-9963; AD 97-06-06) - supersedes AD 92-27-10, which requires inspection of the pilot and copilot chairs to ensure that the locking pins will fully engage in the seat tracks, and modification of any chair where the locking pin fails to fully engage or is misaligned. AD 92- 27-10 resulted from reports of pilot and copilot chair locking pin malfunction.
Rep. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) Thursday introduced a joint resolution to block new methylene chloride standards that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration adopted early this year. OSHA mandated that companies reduce the existing eight-hour, time-weighted average exposure rate from 500 parts per million (ppm) of methylene chloride - a primary component in aircraft paint removing solvents as well as some glues - to 25 ppm (BA, March 17/121).
Flight Services Group, the Stratford, Conn.-based aircraft management, sales and charter firm, has restructured its management team to accommodate the company's rapid growth over the past several years. Founded by Dave Hurley in 1985 (BA, Sept. 23, 1985/101), FSG now has 24 aircraft on its air carrier certificate, ranging in size from a King Air to a BAC 1-11.
NATIONAL BUSINESS AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION is hosting a reception for its members and other members of the business aviation community next Thursday in San Jose, Calif. The event, being held in conjunction with an NBAA board of directors meeting, will be held in Hewlett-Packard's hangar on the San Jose International Airport. Association officials and senior staff will discuss topics such as air traffic control user fees, FAA reform and related issues. For more information on the April 3 reception, contact NBAA's March Tate at (202) 783-9000.
FAA will hold a meeting next month to seek industry input on approving differential global positioning (DGPS) ground stations. FAA is soliciting information methods to install, evaluate, inspect and commission Special Category I ground facilities that are designed to augment the global positioning system for private use instrument approach and landing procedures. The meeting will be held April 16-17 at the Holiday Inn Mountain View hotel in Albuquerque, N.M. For more information, contact William Dixon at (202) 267-9147.
MILLION AIR FARMINGDALE recently completed $5 million in capital improvements and is planning an additional investment of $5 million to $6 million over the next 18-24 months. The fixed-base operation, based at Republic Airport on Long Island, N.Y., finished construction of the first line of T-hangars late last year with the second line to be started this spring. Million Air also installed a self-service fuel system for aviation gasoline in February.
Federal Aviation Administration added discrete electrical and electronic parts to its definition of "Standard Part," in an interpretation that will "measurably improve the availability" and likely reduce the cost of such parts, according to the National Air Transportation Association. FAA allows the sale of standard parts for installation on a type- certificated product without the manufacturer holding a parts manufacturer approval. FAA defines standard parts as those "conforming to industry or U.S.
The Transportation Department this month issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking seeking comment on operational and cost issues associated with requiring U.S. airlines - including on-demand carriers - and travel agents to collect additional passenger manifest information from domestic passengers. DOT said it expects a proposed rule to require carriers to collect basic information such as name, date of birth or social security number and contact name and telephone number.
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION issued special conditions for a supplemental type certificate to East Coast Aerospace Engineering for a modification on the Beech Model E90 airplane. FAA said the aircraft will have novel design features that include the installation of electronic displays. The special conditions are intended to address the protection of the systems from the effects of high intensity radiated fields. For more information, contact Ervin Dvorak, an aerospace engineer in FAA's Small Airplane Directorate, at (816) 426-6941.
